"You can't think straight unless you are cool. But then neither can you think deep if you are." — C.S. Lewis, Letters to Malcolm
Only a cool head can be wrapped around something because its coolness keeps it from getting wrapped up in it. Christians are required to think straight as crookedness is a tell tale sign of thinking like the opposition. Kinks in your thinks lead to kinky behaviors. But Christians are not merely meant to be calculators. We should compute the correct answers, but not with the cold, hard logic of a cold, dead heart. The Christian needs to be cool-headed, but warm-blooded.
Christians are required not only to think clearly, but deeply. This entails a much more scenic route than the typical highway provides. Christians are a thinking people. God requires that we love Him with all our hearts, souls, minds, and might. This means we must learn to discern straight from crooked, but also shallow from deep. We must learn how to swim in order to dive into deeper waters. Shallow, straight thinking is better than shallow, crooked thinking, but one can still drown in an inch of water. Deep, straight thinking is best. One does not have to abandon principles to enjoy poetry, but one does have to lighten up. Heaviness can drown one in the depths as easily as crookedness can in the shallows.
All that to say, cooler heads prevail when it comes to the straight and narrow, but a broad mind is needed in order to enjoy it enough to stay on the right track. An emotional whirlwind cannot make sense of its emotions, but neither can a yardstick. God made us to be well-rounded and every aspect of human nature is called to be brought into submission under Christ as its Head: heart, soul, mind, mettle, and muscle. Blood and brains must yield to Jesus. Brains need blood to function. Blood needs brains to distribute it.
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